she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." – R. Buckminster Fuller